Coat printed with an allover pattern of design and the manufacturing process



April 30, 1968 TQKUTARO u o 3,380,074

COAT PRINTED WITH AN ALLOVBR PATTERN OF DESIGN AND THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS Filed Dec, 28. 1966 3 Sheets-$heet 1 Fay] 5 N Fi i Aplll 30, 1968 TOKUTARO' MUTO 3,380,074

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7mm in] H M-1 United States Patent COAT PRINTED WITH AN ALLOVER PATTERN OF DESIGN AND THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS Tokutaro Muto, Tokyo-to, Japan, assignor to Kosugi Sangyo Company, Limited, Tokyo, Japan Filed Dec. 28, 1966, Ser. No. 605,288 Claims priority, application Japan, Sept. 14, 1966, 41/ 60,333 2 Claims. (Cl. 2-93) This invention relates to a coat printed with an allover pattern of design and the method of manufacturing the coat.

More particularly, this invention concerns a coat printed with an allover pattern of design and its manufacturing process which are characterized by preparing a halftailored coat composed of a body and sleeves sewed together in a cross shape, spreading flatly the half-tailored coat over a printing board, fixing the spread material assembly to the surface of the printing board by means of a bonding agent or adequate fasteners, printing the pattern of design on the coat surface so that the pattern of design is continuous at the seams of the armholes and shoulders, and finally sewing the printed semifabricated coat.

It is a common procedure in the art of fabricating printed garments to print the separate pieces of woven and knitted fabrics for the bodies and sleeves of garments separately by means of printing boards and to subject the separately printed fabric pieces to drying, sizing, combining and sewing, or to print the seaming parts of the garment partly. However, the printed patterns of design marked by these conventional processes are discontinuous at the seams and do not come out with uniform coloring, thus imparing the appearance of the allover pattern of design.

In order to overcome the above-mentioned defects of the conventional methods, the present invention contemplates sewing the body and sleeves of a coat before printing is done so that the ar-mholes and the shoulders can be expanded in a plane, spreading the half-tailored coat over a printing board and applying a printing screen pattern of design all over the coat material to be printed.

The present invention will be more fully understood from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a front view showing a blank of fabric for a body portion of a raglan type coat;

FIG. 2 is a development view of a blank of material for a sleeve;

FIG. 3 is an expansion plan view illustrating a halfmade coat produced by joining two pieces of material for the body and two fabric blanks for both sleeves symmetrically with respect to the center of the assembly and sewing them up along the joint seams;

FIG. 4 is a side view showing the half-made coat spread over a convex printing board;

FIG. 5 is a top view of the setup shown in FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is an expansion plan view of the semifabricated coat on which an allover pattern is printed;

FIG. 7 is a front view of a finished coat printed with the allover pattern of design;

FIG. 8 is an expansion plan view of a semitailored shirt with set-in sleeves; and

FIG. 9 is a front view of a finished set-in sleeve shirt printed with a pattern of design in the same manner as in the case of the coat.

The drawings thus illustrate two embodiments of the invention, and FIGURES 1 to 7 show a raglan type sweater, and FIGURES 8 and 9 show a set-in sleeve shirt. In the various view, like reference numerals are used to indicate like parts.

3,380,074 Patented Apr. 30, 1968 The coats embodying the present invention can be produced out of woven and knitted fabrics and other clothing materials. FIG. 1 shows a body portion 1 prepared by cutting the corners at both ends of a side of a rectangular blank of fabric into oblique edges 5 and 6. FIG. 2 illustrates a sleeve piece 3 prepared by cutting the corners at both ends of a shorter side of a substantially rectangular blank of material into oblique edges 9 and 10. The shape shown in FIG. 1 is shared by both front and back body portions, while the shape shown in FIG. 2 is common to the right and left sleeves. As shown in FIG. 3, front and back body portions 1 and 2 and two sleeve pieces 3 and 4 are combined symmetrically in a cross shape with the oblique edges 5 to 12 directed inward. The oblique edges are sewed together so as to form armhole seams 13, 14, 15 and 16. The inwardly facing edges 41, 42, 43 and 44 of the four fabric pieces define a neck opening 17. The resulting cross-shaped semifinished coat is designated by the reference number 18. The edges 41, 42, 43 and 44 may be previously fabricated so as to form a collar or may be later fitted with a collar.

The semifabricated coat 18 shown in FIG. 3 is attached in an expanded state over a gently convex printing board 19 whose surface is previously coated with a bonding agent, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5. The semitailored garment 18 is then covered with a paper pattern of design and printed all over. The shape of the printing board is not limited only to the one illustrated in the figure. What is important in this printing method is to cover the armhole seams 13, 14, 15 and 16 with a continuous pattern of design; therefore, when using two or more patterns of design, they must share the same pattern portion for the seam area. As shown in FIG. 6, the half-made coat 21 is printed so as to have a continuous pattern of design 20 pressed on a coat portion including the armhole seams. Since the body portions 1 and 2 and the sleeves 3 and 4 are sewed together as if the material assembly were cut out from a sheet of fabric, the pattern of design printed on the coat surface by means of the paper pattern is continuous at the armhole seams.

The semitailored coat 21 printed with the pattern of design 20 is peeled off the printing board and dried up and then folded in two along the center line 22--22 of the sleeves 3 and 4. The meeting edges 26 and 27 of the sleeves 3 and 4 are sewed up from the armpits 28 and 29 to the outer ends, as indicated by the reference numerals 32 and 33. The end edges are left unsewed as cuff ends 23 and 24. The sleeves thus formed are designated by the numerals 30 and 31. Further-more, the edges 34 and 35 of the overlapping front and back body portions 1 and 2 are sewed up from the armpits 28 and 29 to the bottom edge as indicated by the reference numerals 36 and 37, and the bottom edge is left open as to form a skirt edge 25. The body thus fabricated is denoted by the numeral 38. The coat consisting of the body 38 and the sleeves 30 and 31 may be treated as a finished product or further finished as desired.

FIGURES 8 and 9 shoW a set-in sleeve shirt fabricated in a similar manner to the above. This set-in sleeve shirt has shoulder seams 39 and 40 along the upper edges of the front and back body portions 1 and 2 and armhole seams 13, 14, 15 and 16 which are not extended right to the neck opening 17. With these shoulder seams 39 and 40, however, the same expansion printing as in the case of the above-mentioned raglan type coat can be carried out; therefore, the details of the production process is not repeated.

As mentioned above, the present invention enables one to print an allover pattern of design so as to be continuous at the seams of the armholes and shoulders, 50 that, even when the material for the body is different from that for the sleeves, the printed pattern of design is entirely homogeneous in design and tone of color. Since such a simple process can be employed to produce a coat on which an allover pattern of design is printed, the production is highly efficient. Accordingly, as compared with a typical conventional process which necessitates shipping bodies and sleeves separately to dyeing works, temporary seaming prior to printing, unseaming after printing, sorting and sizing the garment parts, and so forth, the present invention, which requires no such troublesome works, saves a lot of time and labor. While the prior method enables one to produce about 50 garments per day, the process of the present invention allows a production per day of 200 to 250 coats, namely, 4 to times of efiiciency compared with the prior daily output. Since in this invention, the half-made coat produced by sewing the body portions and sleeves can be printed in the same expanded state as a normal flat blank of fabric is printed, the allover pattern of design is not only continuous at the seams of the armholes and the shoulders where striking discontinuity would otherwise take place but also is in order at the other garment portion. Accordingly, there is no such occurence as pattern shift owing to sewing as in the conventional processes, and a pattern of design can be printed accurately all over the coat. Therefore, it is possible to produce a coat whose pattern of design is beautiful and pleasing in appearance.

Although coats and set-in sleeve shirts thus produced can be worn as they are, it is also optionally possible, when a more completely finished product is desired, to properly cut the neck opening 17 at the center of the assembly of the body portions 1 and 2 and sleeves 3 and 4 and add a collar to the neck opening, to attach cuffs to the sleeve ends, to decorate the bottom edge of the body, and so on.

What is claimed is:

1. A coat fabricated by preparing two pieces of material for the body each produced by cutting the corners at both ends of a rectangular blank of fabric into two oblique edges, and two pieces of sleeve material, each produced by cutting the corners at both ends of a shorter side of a rectangular blank of fabric into two oblique edges, combining said four pieces of material symmetrically with the oblique edges directed inward, sewing up the oblique edges so as to form a half-made coat having a neck opening at its center, expanding the semitailored coat over a printing board, printing a pattern of design on the expanded half-made coat so that the pattern of design is continuous at the seams of the armholes and the shoulders, folding the printed half-made coat in two along the center line of the expanded sleeves, and sewing up the side edges of the overlapping front and back body portions and the meeting edges of the sleeves.

2. A process for manufacturing a coat printed with an allover pattern of design which is characterized by preparing two pieces of material for the body, each produced by cutting the corners at both ends of a side of a rectangular blank of fabric into two oblique edges and two pieces of sleeve material, each produced by cutting the corners at both ends of a shorter side of a rectangular blank of fabric into two oblique edges in matching relationship with the oblique edges of the body, combining said four pieces of material symmetrically in a cross shape with the oblique edges directed inward, sewing up the oblique edges so as to form a half-made coat having a neck opening at its center and the seams of the armholes and the shoulders, expanding the semitailored coat over a printing board, printing the allover pattern of design on the expanded half-made coat so that the pattern of design is continuous at the seams of the armholes and the shoulders, folding the printed half-made coat in two along the vertical center line of the pieces of sleeve material so that the two body portions overlap each other, and sewing up the meeting edges of the sleeves from the armpits to the cuif and the side edges of the overlapping front and back body portions from the armpits to the bottom ends.

No references cited.

RICHARD J. SCANLAN, JR., Primary Examiner. 

1. A COAT FABRICATED BY PREPARING TWO PIECCES OF MATERIAL FOR THE BODY EACH PRODUCED BY CUTTING THE CORNERS AT BOTH ENDS OF A RECTANGULAR BLANK OF FABRIC INTO TWO OBLIQUE EDGES, AND TWO PIECES OF SLEEVE MATERIAL, EACH PRODUCED BY CUTTING THE CORNERS AT BOTH ENDS OF A SHORTER SIDE OF A RECTANGULAR BLANK OF FABRIC INTO TWO OBLIQUE EDGES, COMBINING SAID FOUR PIECES OF MATERIAL SYMMETRICALLY WITH THE OBLIQUE EDGES DIRECTED INWARD, SEWING UP THE OBLIQUE EDGES SO AS TO FORM A HALF-MADE COAT HAVING A NECK OPENING AT ITS CENTER, EXPANDING THE SEMITAILORED COAT OVER A PRINTING BOARD, PRINTING A PATTERN OF DESIGN ON THE EXPANDED HALF-MADE COAT SO THAT THE PATTERN OF DESIGN IS CONTINUOUS AT THE SEAMS OF THE ARMHOLES AND THE SHOULDERS, FOLDING THE PRINTED HALF-MADE COAT IN TWO 